That organization provides a forum for negotiating further reductions of trade barriers, settling trade disputes, and enforcing the agreed global trade rules among nations. (cumber.com)
Creating obstacles for steel imports should give Americans steel jobs and bring China's steel production — which violates global trade rules in the way it is made and sold, and has flooded global markets — to heel. (vox.com)
A ruling against the United States might feed an opinion already popular in the Trump administration that global trade rules compromise American sovereignty, and provide a reason to potentially withdraw from the organization. (nytimes.com)